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noun

Coiner n.

One who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money; usually, a maker of counterfeit money. "Precautions such as are employed by coiners and receivers of stolen goods."

An inventor or maker, as of words.

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Etymology of 'Coiner'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Coiner" Quotes from Famous Books

... Carpenter, a scholar of Streit, labored in Madison Co., Va., from 1791 to 1813, when he removed to Kentucky. Augusta County, in the Shenandoah Valley, was almost exclusively settled by Germans, the Koiner (Coyner, Koyner, Coiner, Kiner, Cuyner) family, hailing from Wuerttemberg, being especially numerous. New Market, Shenandoah County, was the home of Paul Henkel (1754—1825), who had studied German, Latin, Greek, and Theology under the direction of Pastor Krug in Pennsylvania, ...

— American Lutheranism - Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod • Friedrich Bente

... refined times, many of the pointed verses of Boileau and Pope have become proverbial. Many trivial and laconic proverbs bear the jingle of alliteration or rhyme, which assisted their circulation, and were probably struck off extempore; a manner which Swift practised, who was a ready coiner of such rhyming and ludicrous proverbs: delighting to startle a collector by his facetious or sarcastic humour, in the shape of an "old saying and true." Some of these rhyming proverbs are, however, terse and elegant: ...

— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

Words linked to "Coiner" : generator, counterfeiter, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, forger, moneyer, coin, United Kingdom, Great Britain, skilled workman, UK, skilled worker, minter, source, trained worker, author, Britain